"High-end, vintage comic books across the board continue to show incredible market durability," said Ed Jaster, Senior Vice President at Heritage Auctions. "The auction total, at $7.17 million, is the third-highest grossing comics auction in history, period."

The Loveland Collection of Silver Age Comic Books, another featured grouping in Beverly Hills, performed very well, with a total just shy of $500,000, led by a CGC-graded 9.4 copy of Journey Into Mystery #83, which realized an impressive $179,250 for famous first appearance of the mighty Thor.

"Anticipation of Wonder Woman and Aquaman being in the new Batman-Superman movie spurred these comics to their high prices," said Jaster, "showing that the continued appearance of more and more characters in mainstream vehicles is leading to higher prices realized for their original appearances."